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terça-feira, 28 de fevereiro de 2017

The museum, located on the charming Park Ave in the town of Winter Park, houses the world's most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

In the galleries there are also exhibitions of American art ceramics, handicrafts, American paintings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, leaded glass windows and lamps made by other artists of the time.

The anniversary celebration has left Central Florida residents busy with various activities. The month of March covers Winter Park's annual arts fair, the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, and six weeks of live music on Fridays.

The city of Winter Park, located 30 minutes from Orlando, owns one of America's most beloved restaurants in the high society, the Ravenous Pig, and the hottest mornings for a brasserie-style brunch and sidewalk brunch. My favorite restaurant is the Briarpatch.

For those of you in Orlando this month, take note of the events and prepare to feel some American life.

This work is known as "9:45 A.M. Accommodation" by Edward Lamson Henry.

In 1864, Henry (1841-1919) painted this scene of a busy train depot, vividly suggesting all that was good and challenging about the industrialization of America. Years later, John Taylor Johnson (1820-1893) - then president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - asked Henry to paint a second version, which has since been reproduced in prints, cards and calendars. Hugh F. McKean, director of the Museum since its founding in 1942 until his death in 1995, wrote that Henry's painting "won the hearts of many Americans."

Tiffany Chapel, c. 1893 | Mila Soares

Created by the Tiffany company, the chapel demonstrated the art of the company and craftsmanship in the production of ecclesiastical goods ranging from clerical garments and furniture from mosaics to glass windows.

The interior of the Byzantine-inspired chapel was built from simple classical shapes, columns and arches, which are huge in relation to the intimate space of the chapel (1,082 square feet, including the baptistery).